Japanese food culture

The most impressive thing about Japanese food is its fine workmanship and natural ingredients, which give people a clean and comfortable feeling. This is one of the reasons to go to Japan. Come with me to experience Japanese food culture.

Many restaurants in Japan are family restaurants and have a long operating history, which makes them work very hard and seriously on food, whether they are running high-end meals or running small noodle shops and restaurants. Small stalls pay attention to every detail. This is probably the basis for the survival of many small restaurants. I once saw a very small dumpling restaurant with a history of 54 years, which was amazing.

Japanese restaurants pay great attention to the environment and atmosphere when eating. Even if you have free breakfast in a tatami room of a hotel, it is all done in a presentable way, giving people a very atmospheric and sentimental feeling, which will immediately whet your appetite. .

I remember the free breakfast given to us at Kyoto Honnōji Hotel. The room rate is not very expensive in Japan. It turned out that this free breakfast was delivered to the room. The waiter entered the guest room, tidied up the room, set the table, and brought a full breakfast. It was beyond our imagination.

Japanese food is relatively safe to eat, because the supervision is strict and the ingredients are very green, so you can eat it with confidence. I have eaten it several times in Japan this time. It is indeed fat but not greasy, and it feels tender and smooth. The key is that it is not very expensive.

I never drink the free tea bags in hotels. I don’t like drinking tea at all, let alone tea bags. However, I couldn’t help but drink one of the hotel’s free tea bags, and even took away the given one because I had never tasted this salty plum tea that resembles seafood soup. (Japanese plum tea is made from a mixture of dried plums, green tea and a little soy sauce. It tastes a little sweet and sour and can treat problems such as loss of appetite and heat stroke caused by heat.)

Plum tea has been available in China since ancient times, and there are An interesting anecdote is that Ximen Qing was fascinated by Pan Jinlian and went to Wang Po's teahouse five times in two days to inquire about it. Wang Po brought out plum tea for him.

When I went to Japan, many friends asked me to go to an izakaya for a drink. Legend has it that Japanese office workers often go to an izakaya for a few drinks after get off work and then go home. This makes them look successful at work. feel. As a result, there are taverns everywhere on the street. Dotonbori, the most famous food street in Osaka, has a dazzling array of food signs, and some shops even have queues.

I found a sushi restaurant. The ingredients are fresh and handmade on site. It’s so delicious. The price is a little more expensive than in China. It costs about 300 yuan for two people.

I didn’t drink liquor at many restaurants in Japan, but it is said that Japanese sake is different from our liquor. It is made from fermented grain and koji. I tried it and it turned out to be addictive. It is not as fragrant as domestic liquor, and has only a little taste of old rice wine, but the taste is very pure.

There are many levels of sake in Japan, from high to low, divided into: Junmai Daiginjo (Grainjo), Junmai Ginjo (Ginjo), Special Junmai (Junmai), Special I still can’t tell the difference between good and bad Honjozo (honjojo), but they taste good anyway. When drinking sake, you need to put it in a jug first and then warm it with water. It tastes very good when you drink it.

The simplest way to eat in Japan is ramen. Sometimes lunch time is short, so most people just eat some ramen. It is simple and fast. However, their ramen is a little different from ours. The workmanship is very fine at the critical moment, and it is just ramen. A photo of the chef taken at the noodle shop.

Their ramen is very delicious. I ordered a signature ramen, which is egg, pork and bamboo shoots. However, the egg is a hot spring egg, half-cooked, and the pork is secretly prepared. It is very bad and tastes very fragrant. , but it's a bit salty and a lot of oil. After eating one bowl, I don't want to eat it for dinner.

Next to Fushimi Inari Grand Shrine in Kyoto, there is an inconspicuous small restaurant with a sign hanging in front of the door, saying that it has been rated as an excellent restaurant by foreign tourists for two years. Went in for a meal of ramen. This bowl of mackerel soba noodles was much lighter and not very expensive, equivalent to RMB 47.

Udon noodles are one of the most Japanese noodles. Together with Japanese buckwheat noodles and green tea noodles, they are also known as Japan's three major noodles.

I didn't catch a cold before, but after eating udon noodles at a popular noodle restaurant in Kyoto called "Marugame Seimen", my impression changed drastically.

This noodle shop is eaten by locals in Kyoto. It is cheap and tastes good. A bowl of noodles is RMB 25, but you need to send the empty bowl back after finishing the meal. The way to eat udon is very particular. The restaurant has specially prepared instructions on how to mix the noodles, and they are also in Chinese. I followed the instructions and made a bunch of delicious ones and ate them all. I almost licked the plate.

A higher-end meal than ramen is Ochazuke rice. Ochazuke rice is called the "food of the samurai" in Japan because it is a fast food during the march and is brewed with fermented tea and hot water. Add salt, prunes, seaweed and other ingredients to the cold rice you bring, and eat it together.

I really like to eat Japanese set meals. Set meals are a set meal in Japanese restaurants. Rice is the main meal. The rice is set at 250 grams. The ingredients are also standardized, such as pork cartilage and eel. , pork chop, tempura, etc., all cost around 100. Because the food is standardized and easy to make, it is called a set meal. The price is not expensive. If you go to an ordinary restaurant, the set meal price of this set of sea fish is about RMB 50, which is very filling.

When you go to Kobe, everyone knows about the legendary Kobe beef. It is a high-end Japanese delicacy that you must eat. It ranks sixth in the world's top delicacies. When I ate it for the first time, it didn’t taste like our beef at all, and it didn’t have that much fiber in the meat. It was very tender. Many parts of beef can be eaten raw. The price is indeed not cheap. A kilogram of cheap beef costs about 300 to 400. It's probably two to three thousand yuan more expensive.

The most obvious feature of Kobe beef is the marble-like pattern. Because it is meat with an excellent combination of fat and lean. Kobe beef must be born and raised in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and it must be pure Tajima beef. It can be said that it is a national treasure food in Japan. There are only about 3,000 cattle that meet the quality requirements of Kobe beef every year.

Speaking of beef barbecue, let’s talk about Japanese barbecue bars. There are many barbecues at stalls, but they are not charcoal barbecues. Many use air guns or gas barbecues, and it is easy to control the heat. , fast, but the taste is not as strong as Chinese barbecue, and not as delicious as charcoal barbecue.

I like eating grilled fish very much. One is salty enough, and the other is very tender. Because there are many fish in the sea of ??Japan, the price is not expensive. I have eaten a large piece of grilled fish at a barbecue stall. It’s only 30 yuan in RMB.

There are many barbecue restaurants in Japan, but they are completely different from our barbecue. Personally, I feel that except for the barbecued seafood, it is not as delicious as Chinese barbecue.

Another delicacy that belongs to the same category as barbecue is oden. This is a very simple dish from the Kanto region of Japan in the past. It consists of boiling eggs, radish, potatoes, kelp, konjac, fish balls, bamboo shoots (fish, soy products), etc. in the stock. It can also be eaten with seasonings. I I think it tastes very bland and I really like it.

In addition to Kobe beef, another high-end Japanese delicacy is of course Kaiseki cuisine. Of course, the price is also equally expensive. No matter the food is exquisite and exquisite, the plates and other utensils used to hold the food are all the same. Just pieces of art.

Kaiseki cuisine is a very common Japanese delicacy in Japan. However, when monks sat in meditation, they held hot stones in their chests to resist hunger, so it got the elegant name of Kaiseki cuisine.

Kaiseki cuisine pursues the realm rather than filling the stomach, so the workmanship is extremely particular. The so-called one juice and three dishes are full of color, fragrance and flavor. Even the order of serving is particular. The portion is small, but the price is high. , a portion costs at least hundreds or even thousands of yuan, and contains about 14 dishes, each of which is a work of art.

It’s so exquisite that sometimes I really feel like I can’t bear to eat it. Before I eat it, I take photos carefully and realize that the presentation of each dish is very particular, and even a vegetable leaf is arranged very carefully. Just be good.

Many people exclaimed after seeing it, how can you feel full after eating like this? In fact, not to mention more than a dozen dishes, you will not feel full after finishing it, at least you will feel seventy full.

You must eat persimmon leaf sushi when you go to Nara. Put marinated salmon and mackerel fillets on vinegar rice, and then wrap them in persimmon leaves. The persimmon leaves can keep it fresh and remove the fishy smell.

Hiramune's persimmon leaves are the best. In ancient times, there was persimmon leaf sushi in Nara. Don't eat the leaves when eating. The first time I ate it, I actually ate all the persimmon leaves.

The tofu in Kyoto, Japan is indeed well-deserved, with exquisite workmanship and a melt-in-the-mouth feeling. It is said that many of them are due to the addition of egg whites.

Various dried fruits are also good. I bought some dried blueberries at a stall. They cost 100 yuan for a small bag. They taste good but are a bit expensive. These natto and other things are all priced at 100g. It sells for ten yuan. It’s delicious but not cheap.

Among Japanese fruits, there are many strawberries and they taste good, so they put strawberries into snacks and eat them in candied haws, which is really beautiful. It just has a sweet and sour taste, which is more suitable for girls.

Japanese snacks are really unique, the workmanship is so exquisite, and there is no strong chemical flavor at the critical moment. I can't get enough of them. I don’t know what this kind of snack is called, but it’s filled with ice cream. It tastes hot on the outside and cold on the inside.